Su Rong is a former senior regional official and politician in China.
13 Facts About Su Rong
Su Rong began his career in his native Jilin, and successively served as Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Qinghai, Gansu, and Jiangxi provinces.
Su Rong was sentenced to life in prison for accepting a "massive amount of bribes".
Su Rong is one of the highest-ranking officials to come under investigation for graft since Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012.
Su Rong was born 1948 in Taonan, Baicheng prefecture, in Northeast China's Jilin province.
Su Rong joined the Chinese Communist Party in January 1970.
In 2001, Su Rong was transferred to Qinghai province in Northwest China, serving as its Communist Party Chief, the top official in the province.
Su Rong became the chairman of Qinghai Provincial People's Congress in 2002.
Su Rong was an alternate member of the 14th and the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and a full member of the 16th and the 17th Central Committees.
The results of the CCDI investigation into Su Rong was announced February 16,2015.
On January 23,2017, Su Rong was sentenced to life in prison for bribery, deprivation of political rights for life and confiscation of all personal property.
Su Rong said in court that he would obey the court's decision and would not appeal.
Su Rong's son-in-law named Cheng Danfeng, former vice mayor of Zhangjiajie City, was sacked for graft in November 2015.